Bill Text: NY A06092 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6092 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes the crime of concealment of a human corpse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-20 - REFERRED TO CODES [A06092 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06092-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6092--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 14, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Codes --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
         concealment of a human corpse
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as "Amanda Lynn's
    2  Law"
    3    S  2.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 195.02 to read
    4  as follows:
    5  S 195.02 CONCEALMENT OF A HUMAN CORPSE.
    6    A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CONCEALMENT OF A HUMAN CORPSE WHEN, ACTING  WITH
    7  THE BELIEF THAT A HUMAN CORPSE OR A PART THEREOF WILL BE PRODUCED FOR OR
    8  USED AS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE IN AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING OR PROSPECTIVE OFFI-
    9  CIAL  PROCEEDING,  SUCH  PERSON,  ALONE  OR  IN  CONCERT  WITH  ANOTHER,
   10  CONCEALS, ALTERS OR DESTROYS SUCH CORPSE OR PART THEREOF WITH THE INTENT
   11  TO PREVENT ITS PRODUCTION, USE OR DISCOVERY.
   12    CONCEALMENT OF A HUMAN CORPSE IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   13    S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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